How to do VLOOKUP in Power BI

How to do VLOOKUP in Power BI

How to do VLOOKUP in Power BI

Searching how to do VLOOKUP in Power BI? In this post I’ll show you how to use the Merge Queries function from Power BI to achieve this!

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Merging Queries in Power BI

Watch this video and learn how to do VLOOKUP in Power BI using the Merge Queries functionality:

How does the 'Merge Queries' work:

The Merge tables functionality from Power BI allows you to select common columns between 2 or more different tables, creating one single “Merged” table based on the selected column.

Table 1
Table 1
Table 2
Table 2
Merge Tables in Power BI
Table 3 = Table 1 merged with Table 2 by common 'Column B'

Easier than Excel's VLOOKUP!

Power BI’s Merge Queries is fairly easy to use, and with just a few clicks in the tool, allows you to extract multiple columns from multiple queries to one single query.

The Merge Queries in more details

You can find here more details on Microsoft’s webpage on the Merge Queries from Power Query which is available in Power BI.

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